Originally Posted by DamianJ

I use Eye Candy's NALEM plug in. Works a treat to get that amateur look. It combines a lack of focus along with fucked up exposure, poor white balance and sometimes even recrops your images so the composition sucks.

Originally Posted by SilentKnight

I often use VirtualPhotographer by Optik Verve Labs. It has a great assortment of filters to create amateur-looking f/x.

You can also try searching Google images for 'grunge' background textures and drop the original photo as a layer onto the texture - use screen or overlay merge.


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